Roughly 30 years ago prison activists
began to promote the concept of
“alternatives to prisons.” The alternatives they had in mind were halfway houses, probation, and other less punitive forms of supervision and rehabilitation. “...
16 January 2002
News media editorials frequently call for an end to the violence in the Middle East
and a return to the peace process by the Palestinians and Israelis. (The
Palestinians call it the “piece” process—While the negotiators talk, the...
16 January 2002
The following article appeared on the website: consortiumnews.com.
Major national news outlets have gone silent in the face of evidence that they published misleading stories about the Florida presidential recount. The New...
Major national news outlets have gone silent in the face of evidence that they published misleading stories about the Florida presidential recount. The New...
16 January 2002
At its January meeting, the Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of
Ohio
committed to working on a campaign to enact a Living Wage ordinance in the
City of Columbus. A living wage ordinance would require employers who
receive...
11 January 2002
From Frederick Douglass to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for more than a century, the dominant political perspective within the Black Freedom Movement was “integrationism.” This political approach emphasized the deep commitment and...
10 January 2002
There are many ways to measure the destructive impact of structural racism on the African-American community. Perhaps the most important effects are on our health and physical well being. The National Medical Association of Washington D....
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